Elder Jones week 73

Hey guys! I hope you all had a great week. This week was great. It was the last week of the transfer and we took a picture of all the missionaries in the zone. There is a tradition in Peru to hit people with eggs on their birthday, so after taking the picture we all nailed Elder Yates, a new missionary in the zone, with a kilo of eggs for his birthday. He had no idea what was going on, but he was a good sport about it, and his companion brought an extra shirt for him. This week we were 30 missionaries in the zone! because 2 of the new secretaries are being trained. Elder Dyches and Elder Montenegro. They`re awesome. Elder Dyches likes to run so we`ve been running together almost every morning this week. I am so out of shape. We went to the temple this week! I hadn`t gone in a really long time. We`re also going to the temple on thursday with the recent converts in the ward, so that`ll be exciting. This entire week we`ve been really worried about finding a place for the sister missionaries in Pueblo Libre to live because the owner of the house where they are living is going to sell the house on november 10th. An elderly woman that attends Pueblo Libre offered her house because after the death of her husband she moved to live with someone else in the ward and she wanted to offer her old house to the sister missionaries. On saturday we went to go check out the house and we learned that she is a hoarder. She doesn`t throw out anything. Her house is a very narrow  4 story building and she wanted to offer the first 2 floors to the sister missionaries. But both floors were full of things that probably have sentimental value to her and also a lot of things that I`m sure didn`t have sentimental value. But she wasn`t willing to throw away, or give away, any of it. So we spent about 4 hours on saturday carrying things from the first and second floor to the 3rd floor. We`re not so sure how hygenic it is to live in a house where the other floors are full of trash, but at least the first 2 floors are looking pretty clean. 

We found several awesome people to teach this week. We found the Chaman family. The father is less active and the mom and 15 years old son, José, are not. The father, Enrique, is really good friends with our ward mission leader. Yesterday we went with him to visit Enrique for the first time and he was alone, but his wife and son were going to arrive soon. It really helped us gain their confidence that our ward mission leader was there. They listened to the missionaries about 2 years ago and José almost got baptized but they found out that their uncle was dying of skin cancer and the grandma was in deep stages of Alzheimer´s and they just stopped listening to the missionaries. Right now Enrique wants to come back to church. He`s been reading the Book of mormon since June when his mother died. They had a piano in the room and Enrique wanted me to play something on the piano when José came in to gain his confidence, because he likes piano, and I didn`t know what to play because they didn`t have any hymn books so I just started playing Clocks by Coldplay when he walked in and it turns out that he really likes Coldplay so we sucessfully gained his trust. He`s also really good friends with one of the daughters of Elder Moscosso. So we`re very confident that they are going to progress. José is going to play basketball with us and the Secretaries on saturday.